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- Birth nameMartin Charlton Woodhouse
- Martin Woodhouse was born on August 29, 1932 in Romford, Essex, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Avengers (1961), Emerald Soup (1963) and The Man in Room 17 (1965). He was married to Penny Stallings. He died on May 15, 2011 in England, UK.
- SpousePenny Stallings(1970 - 1982) (divorced, 3 children)
- Brother of Hugh Woodhouse.
- He became a full-time novelist in 1966.
- Woodhouse began writing for TV series, starting with the children's show 'Supercar (1961-1962)', and eventually became the lead writer for The Avengers for four years.
- Woodhouse attending medical school at St Mary's hospital, Paddington. He studied experimental psychology under Richard Gregory and did postgraduate research for a year as a research scholar with the Medical Research Council Applied Psychology Unit at Cambridge, where he designed and built the Logical Truth Computer (LTC, nicknamed Lettuce) to investigate and compare the differences between human and machine intelligence.
- He served in the English Royal Air Force. His older half-brother, Robert, a Mosquito pilot with the RAF's 107 Squadron, was killed over Arnhem in 1944.
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